Our rifleman had saddled our own horses, and had brought them up under one of a row of sheds which had recently been erected near the house.
Mount and the rifleman Renard no longer did it, and I had thought to have persuaded Murphy and Elerson to conduct more becoming.
Boyd nodded laughingly, wheeled his horse, and we rode slowly out into the Bedford Road, the mounted rifleman dogging our heels.
I sit here waiting for a rifleman to take my letter to the General who has promised to commit it to the runner.
At the same moment, the rifleman sent to our bush-hut to summon the Mohican returned with him.
As for me, my Sagamore had not arrived; and I finally cast a cloak about me and went out to the horse-sheds, where ourrifleman lolled, chewing a lump of spruce and holding our three horses.
Which I did stiffly; and our rifleman escort scrambled from his sweatty saddle and gathered all three bridles in his mighty, sunburnt fist.
An hostler, presently appearing from somewhere, passed the broken windows, and we saw our rifleman go away with him, leading the three tired horses.
And presently our giant rifleman appeared leading the horses, and still munching a bough-apple, scarce ripe, which he dropped into the bosom of his hunting shirt when he discovered us watching him.
The bishop gave the rifleman a good wigging as to his dereliction of duty, and reminded him that he ought really to be the bishop’s prisoner.
The rifleman stood at the salute, and, expressing his penitence, the offense was overlooked.
All Monday passed and still no relief came," writes a rifleman of the battalion.
When the village was about half cleared," says Rifleman T.
If there be one rifleman here who is too weary to enter Johnstown before daylight, let him fall out.
The big rifleman mounted the ladder and leaped to the rifle-platform, which quivered beneath his weight.
The knowledge that he is not likely to get twenty-one bull's-eyes in a match does not prevent a rifleman from getting all the bull's-eyes he can.
It is really what happens with the rifleman who gives way to the recoil and forms a habit of flinching, or with the cricketer who allows his desire to score to overcome his habit of caution.
The rifleman becomes a hopelessly bad shot; the batsman degenerates into a slogger: the young man swears every time he speaks, and his conscience loses all power to check him.
And so to go back to our rifleman and our cricketer.
There was one man, however, who proved a sort of stumbling-block--Rifleman Dowit.
Yet there were grounds for belief in what the rifleman had said.
Here the conditions in hospital were passable, although food was poor and meagre; but Rifleman Carr made progress, and in less than a week he had recovered from the effect of his wounds except for his speech and hearing.
In vain Rifleman Carr looked for a New Zealand uniform: these were mostly Tommies and Jocks, a sprinkling of Canadians, and two West Indians; Anzacs seemed to be unrepresented in the motley throng of captives.
Compared with Rifleman Gilway's efforts those Of Corporal Jephson were simply terrific.
Presently Rifleman Carr's hand came in contact with a hard substance protruding from the Prussian's pocket.
I am lucky, Malcolm," he said after Rifleman Carr had thanked him for his act of devotion.
All attention was centred upon the sinister hole in front of which the body of Rifleman Joliffe lay--a silent warning of the danger that lurked within.
While Rifleman Carr was busy with first-aid dressings, Sergeant Fortescue was pondering over the situation.
Rifleman Gilway advanced two paces, lifted the instrument to his lips, and distended his cheeks.
Choosing a gap in the parados, Rifleman Carr cautiously slid on to the floor of the trench.
When the young rifleman described his Scottish journey as the usual round, he was referring to the somewhat curious fact that a large percentage of New Zealanders go to Edinburgh when granted leave after being discharged from hospital.
But when the roll-call was taken one of the men was missing--Rifleman Scrooch.
One day a rifleman reported sick to the Doctor and was sent down the line to the Dressing Station whence he would be sent on to a Rest Camp.
I had therefore to assure a rifleman that I would take full responsibility for his action.
I had a little brown tent five feet wide and six feet long which a rifleman had lent to me because the bell-tent I was expecting had not arrived.
The rifleman did not need his tent, for he and his chums had built themselves a little dug-out.
A rifleman guided us down a communication-trench till we came to the cemetery.
Even when I found a rifleman he hesitated to shoot a mule.
No Riflemanor Quartermaster's Department should be without it.
Upon the evening of the sixth day, however, a rifleman from the Virginia corps appeared before the Colonel’s tent.
This sudden call disconcerted me somewhat; but the riflemanon my right came to my assistance by calling out in a cheerful voice: "Oh!
A rifleman tells us that one day {26} he roasted and chewed his shot pouch, and adds, "in a short time there was not a shot pouch to be seen among all those in my view.
Supposing that he was {110} mortally wounded, and resolved not to lose his scalp, the fainting rifleman clasped his arms tightly round the neck of his good horse, and galloped for life through the woods.
He was not early enough, however, to catch the old rifleman napping.
Otherwise he might have been the typical early American rifleman of the Alleghanies.
The marine won, and carried off the prize--while the rifleman declared that he had never yet forgiven himself for being cheated out of his half, for he feels convinced that the marine had come there prepared with a ha'penny that had two tails.
To a hungry rifleman the question of his rations is a matter of vital importance.
One of the favourites with us was written by a certain rifleman in "C" Company, sung to the air of "Off to Philadelphia in the Morning.
I have learned to love my new life, obey my officers, and depend upon my rifle; for I am Rifleman Patrick MacGill of the Irish Rifles, where rumour has it that the Colonel and I are the only two real Irishmen in the battalion.
Prentiss shot again, his sights on what he hoped would be a vital area, and the rifleman shot an instant later.
Lake had seen the shooting of the rifleman and had watched the unicorn herd kill John Prentiss and then trample the dead rifleman.
The rifleman kept running, seeming not to hear him in his panic.
The rifleman would reach the stockade only a little ahead of them and they would go through the wall as though it had been made of paper.
At length a riflemanof the Virginia corps, volunteered his services.
Every rifleman was well aware that more of the same lay ahead; he could see his next objectives looming to the front, across the Mount Tenjo Road, which crossed the high ground that framed the beachhead.
Mason, a Browning automatic rifleman of the 2d Battalion, earned a posthumous Medal of Honor for single-handedly attacking and wiping out an enemy machine gun position which threatened his unit.
The rifleman appeared from the darkness, touching his cap to me.
The rifleman is here; he is whistling like a whippoorwill.
Under cover of that, the Marines worked a rifleman forward a couple of yards to try to get a bead on the Japanese, but he was unable to spot them and the enemy fire seemed to grow heavier.
A rifleman recounted one such experience: Whenever we cornered the enemy and there was no way out, we faced the dreaded banzai attack.
For at Lalpuri she said she had extracted from the girl the confession that she had refused the Rifleman and others for love of someone in the Plains below.
The very fact that the girl who was his friend had chosen the Rifleman as her husband, according to Mrs. Smith, made him ready to like the man.
The Rifleman held out his hand eagerly to the girl.
As the Rifleman neared the Russian he turned and brought his rifle to the present.
At this moment Rifleman Giles Ogbourne entered the room.
The burlyRifleman checked his contortions by impressing his knuckles into the nape of his neck.
The big Rifleman set his straight back against the door, planted his feet firmly on the floor so that his body formed an obtuse angle, and crossed his arms on his breast.
The London Irish distinguished themselves at Loos and Rifleman Patrick MacGill was present during the whole operation.
